I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

- If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change. - Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. - A prime candidate for natural deselection. -- [Ideas for flamewars]

Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame or inspire the drudge. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart